MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 10/06/2011 05:34, cdrom told the world:
I have performed a profile relocation from a windows xp machine to a windows 7
machine. After the
relocation, everything is normal (News, Mail, Add-on installed, passwords
saved) is normal except
the bookmarks. The bookmarks is empty. I can manually import the bookmarks from
the old profile.
However, when I closed seamonkey and restarted again. All the bookmarks are
gone. I have checked
that the bookmarks.html file in the profile is not read only.
My relocation procedure is :
1. At the windows 7 machine, install seamonkey 2.0.14. Test run normal.
2. Close seamonkey. At the user/application data/mozilla/seamonkey/profiles
directory, find out the
name of profile (e.g. 6xxxxx.default).
3. Delete the profile directory.
4. Copy the old profile from the windows xp machine to windows 7 machine in the
user/application
data/mozilla/semaonkey/profiles directory.
5. Rename the profile as 6xxxxx.default.
6. Restart Seamonkey, everything is normal except the bookmarks.
How can I recovered my bookmarks, or is there a save way to relocate profile
from windows xp machine
to windows 7 machine?
Perhaps there are lingering references to the old profile path.
With Seamonkey fully shut down, open prefs.js in a plaintext editor and
search for the old path name, and replace the references with the new
path name.
Note that not all references will be in the regular Windows format, so
search for the "6xxxxx.default" string instead.
Thanks for the advise. I solved the problem by changing a parameter using about:config, with the
same reasoning that location of the bookmarks file is referenced to the old profile:
1. At the location bar enter about:config
2. In the filter field, enter bookmark
3. Several parameters are displayed. In one of them, the value column displayed the path of the
bookmarks file in the old windows xp machine. Change the value of that parameter to reset.
4. Close Seamonkey.
5. Start Seamonkey, all bookmarks re-appeared and functionally normally. However, that particular
parameter seems to disappear. In searching about:config, no parameter returns with the path of the
bookmark file.
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